[CPEO-BIF] Aurelius, New York TCE lawsuit continues

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lawsuit against GE to continue

Justin Murphy
Auburn Citizen (NY)
July 12, 2011

The state Appellate Division in Rochester has upheld a group of  
Aurelius residents’ lawsuit against General Electric over years of  
water contamination, setting the stage for a trial this winter.

The residents sued GE in 2001, seeking damages and medical monitoring  
payments because the GE-Powerex factory on Genesee Street Road had  
contaminated their drinking water wells for many years with  
carcinogenic chemicals, including trichloroethylene or TCE.

The residents also alleged that the company sought to cover up the  
problem when it first discovered it in the late 1980s.

The company asked Cayuga County Supreme Court Judge Thomas Leone to  
dismiss the case last October, saying the residents had shown no  
health problems and were unlikely to develop any. Leone dismissed  
that claim, and GE appealed.


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For the entire article, see
http://auburnpub.com/news/local/article_0c463f50-ac3a-11e0- 
a2af-001cc4c03286.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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